In Footprints on our Land, we recently studied the French Huguenots and their influence on the culture, architecture, agriculture, language and religion in the Cape.

I had some postcard paper models of Cape houses from my old teaching-days. I made color photo-copies (to save my originals) and gave them to Miss.L10 to cut and glue while I read aloud.

She enjoyed the intricate cutting and scoring,

glueing and forming …

The water-mill was quite tricky!

Once she had finished “playing” with the little paper people around her houses, we put the models up on the window sill on display.

This week we finished off the read aloud. While I read the last few chapters, we solved the “where do we store the 3D models?” problem with an artistic application ~

cut the models apart

use the front, the sides and the back to create 3 houses from 1 model

paste them on a blank page

draw, color and paint the background and the details

and we have wonderful, detailed, colorful pages for in our notebook file!

This way we achieved ~

creative and busy hands while I read aloud

storage for a 3-dimensional object in our notebook file

creative problem-solving = make the models fit into a 2-dimensional design (she had to cut the roof in different angles to look “true”, she made a door where there was only a window, she wanted both sides of the water mill and created a full water flow through several buildings!)

How do you store your children’s 3D models? What busy-hands activities have been the most successful/ creative? Please share in the comments.

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4 thoughts on “3D Models into Art”

This is so cool. I like this idea and how she so carefully worked and enjoyed the story you were reading. I like the drawing and water paint at the end too. Very nice work. Thanks for the encouragement in the artistic areas. That is the area I tend to forget about more often than I ought! *smile* Sincerely, Mommy of two growing blessings & so much more!

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